{"id":42827,"date":"2022-06-29T03:45:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T03:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/mullin-shannon-head-to-gop-primary-runoff-election-in-race-for-inhofe-seat"},"modified":"2022-06-29T03:45:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T03:45:57","slug":"mullin-shannon-head-to-gop-primary-runoff-election-in-race-for-inhofe-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/mullin-shannon-head-to-gop-primary-runoff-election-in-race-for-inhofe-seat","title":{"rendered":"Mullin, Shannon head to GOP primary runoff election in race for Inhofe seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Rep. Markwayne Mullin and former Oklahoma House Speaker T.W. Shannon headed to a Republican runoff on Tuesday in the race to replace U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, as the two finished atop a field of 13 candidates who had little time to introduce themselves to voters. With 99.8% of precincts reporting, Mullin, a five-term congressman from Westville, captured 44% of the vote, falling short of the 50% plus one vote needed to avoid a runoff. Shannon, an Oklahoma City banker making his second run for the Senate, got 18%. Mullin had about&nbsp;93,000 more votes than Shannon. The runoff is Aug. 23. In an interview in Tulsa with News 9, Mullin said he expected to get into a runoff with a percentage in the low 40s. &#8220;To see where we&#8217;re at right now, it is extremely exciting for us,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But we&#8217;ve got this fight, it&#8217;s going to start again tomorrow. We started this to take it all the way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Rep. Markwayne Mullin and former Oklahoma House Speaker T.W. Shannon headed to a Republican runoff on Tuesday in the race to replace U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, as the two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[293,88,42,272,43],"class_list":["post-42827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-congress-courts","tag-elections","tag-politics","tag-senate","tag-u-s-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}